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vigin islands were required to transfer these NOT GUILTY prisoners OUT OF PRISON when they were found not guilty by reason of insanity YEARS AGO

charges in one case included ATTEMPTED STEALING OF A BICYCLE.

the Virgin islands contacted less than 2% of the hospitals to try to find a place for them.

they even tried to get out of the order by saying that they would 'dismiss the charges'

from the order:

This Court has recognized the financial barriers tocompliance faced by Defendants, and created aremedial account in order to provide Defendants withready access to funds necessary to improveconditions and operations at the jail. Even if thefunds in the remedial account did not cover the entirecost of constructing a forensic unit, they could havebeen used to pay for the temporary transfer of Mr.Ramos and the NGRI patients to a stateside forensicunit, or to increase mental health services at the CJC,until Defendants develop a concrete plan forappropriately housing and treating these prisoners inthe territory. The funds in the account could havecovered the costs of hiring medical staff for andequipping the Annex until the supplemental budgetwas approved. Defendants, however, took none ofthese steps. Such conduct exposes them to contempt.